Full name of J K Singh was "Jhar Khande Singh".. it was a peculiar name. When I heard the name, I could not believe that its his name as every body had given him a name "Jalebi Kachodi Singhara". Now I can correlate "Jharkhand" with his name
When I came to Secondary section i.e. class V , J K Singh was the class teacher of 6B. A man of very short height , always smiling, used to wear Dhoti Kurta and clean by heart. He used to teach English in that class. His core competence was History but he also used to teach English in junior classes. On one day, our 6C and 6A sat together in 6A (first floor) as most of our teachers went to Victoria ground for Annual School Sports preparation. He was teaching History and topic was "Pharaoh" i.e. King of Egypt ( Chapter was under "Misr Ki Sabhyata" ). For the first time in class 6 , somebody was teaching History in his own words. In our 6C , R S Rai used to teach history and he used to read the book as it is without value addition. Quite possible, R S Rai used to think that a lecture may not be useful for a class 6 boy. But on the contrary, in other section i.e. class 6A , a teacher was giving lecture on Egypt and Pharaohs. I still remember, he told that Pyramids were built up before Christ and Pharaos had different god. They were not Christians. It was his lecture which created a spirit in me to visit Egypt and see Pyramids. Finally , I managed to visit Pyramids twice in the year of 2008 and spent time in Egypt. Tantia High School was very fortunate to have such a hard work teachers who used to teach students full syllabus.
J K Singh , no doubt, was pure from heart. Sometimes, he used to beat student without fear but ultimately he loved students of the school. We always used to Pranaam him and senior students used to create mockery of him due to his short height, bald face but no students criticized him. I do not think he had any enemy.
I do remember that J K Singh delivered his speech on the next day of the death of General Zia Ul Haq of Pakistan. We all were not sad and even he was not sad.. but he was bound to express his condolence on the death of General Zia. But just after his expressing condolences, we students reacted with smile and laugh... he accepted that Indians are least concerned on the death but he had to speak on it for one minute as a gesture of gentleman. Then he continued on his speech on other topic.
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I do remember that J K Singh delivered his speech on the next day of the death of General Zia Ul Haq of Pakistan. We all were not sad and even he was not sad.. but he was bound to express his condolence on the death of General Zia. But just after his expressing condolences, we students reacted with smile and laugh... he accepted that Indians are least concerned on the death but he had to speak on it for one minute as a gesture of gentleman. Then he continued on his speech on other topic.
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